Le mardi 09 avril 2013 à 08:29 +0200, Karl Eichwalder a écrit :
Tomáš Chvátal
writes: Let me tell you a "shorty" bit about my hackweek project.
I'm not that sure whether this all is actually wanted or even needed. And, more important, it looks confusing to me. But if the openSUSE community wants to go that way, it is fine with me. I'd guess the openSUSE community than would administer and manage this process (e.g., updating the translation packages, in case that that is still needed), and I could retire from it (which is also perfectly ok for me).
Check with the opensuse project management and especially with coolo whether everthing is fine.
Some general remarks.
1/ The current infrastructure sure has some weak areas. Thus, improvements are a good idea.
2/ In the context of translations, I'd avoid git as much as possible and stick with svn.
Why ?
3/ I consider branches per release (openSUSE 12.1, openSUSE 12.2, etc.) as a good thing. Sometimes teams decide to translate a term differently from now on; but this does not mean you actually want to change past releases accordingly; users are used to that translation (even if "wrong") and translated documents or third party documentation might make use of that "wrongly" translated term.
In the future (openSUSE 13.1(?)/SLE 12(?)) we already agreed to get rid of the separate SLE* and opensuse* branches.
4/ Re-arranging and renaming packages is always a PITA. Only do it if it is really needed (and you have nothing better to do ;) ).
But it happens, better to be prepared for it..
5/ Permanent merging and updating translation files during development is bad; this only makes sense at the end of a release cycle. Of course, this is my very personal opinion; if the community thinks different, go for it.
Maybe it can help for people who want to help translation in advance..
6/ I'd avoid the Web for the actual translation process as much as possible; it will probably result in more but even worse translations ;) (see topic 5). I'd rather go for a translation app (Android).
I would avoid using an application. It means more specific development
and just using an application vs web frontend doesn't mean translation
will be better.
There are already full translation frameworks with webUI like Transifex
(which was used for MeeGo), pootle, dams lies (used by GNOME) which
could also be reused..
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Frederic Crozat